verb

• (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
  "The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender."
• (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
  "In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information."
• (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
  "Lob the bacon in the pot."
• (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
  "Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post."

noun

• (ball games) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
  "The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender."

noun

• (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
  "Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon."

noun

• (UK, slang, obsolete) A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
  "Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ."